Shawna Casey is an emerging playwright, born of her experience as an award-winning stage actress performing new works by top playwrights in Los Angeles, New York and Europe. Cast in premiere productions by such playwrights as Irene Fornes, Murray Mednick, Jose Rivera, and Michael Sargent, she now writes her own plays with an eye toward love in all its glory, pathos and humor.

Short plays include The Aegean, produced by Padua at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood; Animal Style and Sap, produced by the Lost Studio in Los Angeles; Bluebird, produced by Theatre of N.O.T.E. in Hollywood; Out of the Blue, produced by There in 10 at the Acting Barn in Los Angeles; Read m n Weep; and her latest, Take Me to Church.

Ms. Casey received her MFA in Writing at Spalding University MFA program in Louisville, Kentucky in 2012. She conceived, edited and contributed to the single edition of her zine, LOVE, which was carried by two popular independent bookstores in Los Angeles, and is working on a book of short stories entitled Fear Not, Maude May.

She has received 6 DRAMALOGUE AWARDS and 8 LAWeekly AWARD Nominations for her work as an actress in Los Angeles.

Successes

latest short play, Catch, received a full production at the 2017 What She Said Festival in Duluth, Minnesota.

new two-act play, blue blue moon, invited to the 2017 Last Frontier Playwright’s Conference in Valdez, Alaska, and to Tangent Theatre’s 2017 NEWvember Festival of new play readings in New York’s Hudson Valley.

two-act play Strong Force - chosen out of 500 blind submissions for the NEWvember Festival in November 2014; finalist in Aurora's Global Age Project competition; semi-finalist in the Playwrights Foundation BAPF 2015.

full-length play Night Becomes Day 2nd place in The Ebell of Los Angeles Playwright Prize Competition 2014 for women playwrights in CA; "Green Read" in Theatricum Botanicum's Seedlings series on Sept 12, 2015 in Los Angeles.